It is a fallacy to believe that embracing your pain means wallowing in melancholy as you let it overpower you. Truthfully embracing your pain means facing your melancholy until the melancholy loses its power over you.
– Valerie Parente (10-14-2017)
Tag: artwork
Trust the Stars
Trust the Stars by Valerie Parente
What is meant to be is already unfolding
Promises we send in space and time
Keep your faith through the darkness of night
And the right pathway will be realized.
Trust the stars
They know your heart.
Destiny is your relationship with the universe
The stars reflect the dust you are made of.
Guardian angels glowing down from above
Writing constellations in a language called love.
Trust the stars
Wherever you are.
The awe that you feel in today
Is not constrained to the starry sky
Whenever you forget about your stellar guide
Remember, you are made of the same light.
Trust the stars
They got you this far.
– Valerie Parente (7-2-17)
Ink
Ink by Valerie Parente
Just leave that ink in tears to cry
Let them fall on the blue lines
And create personal marks
That record our beating hearts.
Don’t try too hard to define
All the thoughts that plague your mind
When you turn your conscience off
A list of words becomes art.
Vocabulary describes
What makes chills tickle your spine
Suppressed fears locked in the dark
Motifs hidden in your plot.
The whispers a pen provides
Are emotions summarized
Broken up in royal parts
By a new language monarch.
– Valerie Parente (6-28-17)
Pretty Darkness
The aesthetic of pretty and dark is an interesting one because it poses a sort of juxtaposition that never gets old. When it comes to portraits and doodles the pink ribbons, heart tattoos, and vibrant roses printed among the la femme drawings capture you in but the provocative gothic tones of mascara stains, bloody tears, and decaying branches dare you too look away. Look, but don’t look. Dismal, yet dazzling. There is this perpetual captivation fueled by the melancholic intimacy behind pretty darkness.
The same juxtaposing state exists when the art of written word hones this pretty darkness. The proper dosage of negativity in text can elicit the rawest and rarest of emotions- and emotion on any level is a beautiful and breathtaking part of being human. Any aesthetic that can celebrate or examine human nature, in any of its mysteries, simplicities, miseries, and revelations, is a pretty dark one.
“Scardust” by Valerie Parente
“Tiara” by Valerie Parente
“Vyne” by Valerie Parente
“Lila” by Valerie Parente
– Valerie Parente (12-9-16)
Personal Business
To have a career creating art must be very rewarding, but also very exhausting. As a professional artist there is no separation between your work life and your personal life, because your business draws from your personal business. Still, I can’t imagine a career avenue more perfect.
– Valerie Parente (5-16-16)
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